Online Job Portal

Abstract

1. Introduction

Online Job Portal project is web application built using PHP, MySQL as backend and HTML JavaScript & Bootstrap as Frontend technologies. Note that this software is developed as an academic project. A newer version (Work in progress) written using Express, GraphQL and Mongo can be obtained here: https://github.com/Sreelal-c/JobBoard-Backend

Online-Job-Portal - A web application built on PHP HTML & javascript Copyright (C) 2016 Sreelal C

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

2. Objective

Online Job Portal project is web application built using PHP, MySQL as backend and HTML JavaScript & Bootstrap as Frontend technologies. Note that this software is developed as an academic project.

This project demonstrates how HTML, JavaScript, PHP can be applied to a real-world Full Stack Web Development problem.

4. Technology Stack

5. System Requirements

General requirements for this technology stack — check the README for exact versions.

• A modern web browser
• VS Code or any code editor
• Node.js (LTS) and npm
• PHP 7.4+ with a web server (XAMPP / WAMP / LAMP)
• MySQL / MariaDB
• phpMyAdmin (optional)
• Git (to clone the repository)

6. Installation & Setup

git clone https://github.com/SreelalChalil/Online-Job-Portal.git
cd Online-Job-Portal

Full setup instructions are in the project README.

7. Future Enhancements

Suggested extensions you can add to make this your own project.

• Add role-based access control
• Deploy on a VPS or cPanel hosting with a custom domain
• Add automated tests and a CI pipeline

8. Viva / Review Questions

Common questions examiners ask for projects in this domain.

1. Explain the frontend, backend and database layers of this application.
2. How is user authentication and authorisation implemented?
3. Describe the main database tables / collections and their relationships.
4. Which REST APIs or routes are exposed and what do they return?
5. How would you deploy this application to production?

9. Source Code & License

This project is developed by SreelalChalil and published on GitHub under the GNU General Public License v3.0. Please follow the license terms and credit the original author when you use or modify this code.